How about if we make the following change for now?
CN +3114+12128 Asia/Shanghai most locations CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chungking China mountains CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Tibet & most of Xinjiang CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar Eastern Turkestan
I would suggest: CN +3114+12128 Asia/Beijing most eastern locations CN +4545+12641 Asia/Harbin Heilongjiang (north-east) CN +2934+10635 Asia/Chongqing Chongqing - central China CN +4348+08735 Asia/Urumqi Tibet and most of Xinjiang CN +3929+07559 Asia/Kashgar Western Xinjiang (Kashi, Kaxgar) Why not using the correct Chongqing? At the same time you use the correct (pinyin) Beijing, Heilongjian and Xinjiang, and not some 19th century transliteration (Chungking)!! Kashi is the Chinese-Latin 'spelling', Kaxgar a local Latin spelling and Kashgar a bit old-fashioned (19th century). Turkestan is a mountain range in Tajikistan and also a place in Kazakhstan - says the Times atlas; has nowadays nothing to do with China. I have a German atlas from 1894, which indeed shows that 'Kaschgar' lies in 'Ost Turkestan', but it can be advised to use a designation one could find in a modern atlas. If I'm well informed, Urumqi has two front-vowels, according to the 'perceived' pronunciation, hence the current spelling Ürümqi, but I suspect this is a bit problematic in the 7-bits Posix world. No problemo. Ah! Where are the days one wrote Oeroemtsji or Wulumuqi? Regards, Oscar van Vlijmen 2001-09-24